Lavasoft Announces Project ECO

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/images/fp_blog_eco.jpgFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASELavasoft AB Kronhusgatan 11 41105 Gothenburg Swedenwww.lavasoft.comLavasoft Launches Project “ECO”Unites a Community of Concerned Computer Users; Gives Series of Reporting and Analysis ToolsHelsinki, Finland, 9 August 2005 - Lavasoft, the industry leader in developing antispyware solutions, launches Project ECO to give users more control over their computers. These goals are achieved by supplying a range of new utilities on a regular basis and ultimately unite a community of users in the best practices and safest standards available in using computers and system networks.’ECO’ is a prefix derived from Greek and Roman roots to denote home; where we live and the environment we are in. Increasingly, we are becoming a society that spends most of our time (work and play) with computers. We rely on them to make our living and to entertain us so it is not a stretch of the imagination to envision computers as part of our environment.Active community involvement“Project ECO encompasses an entire philosophy,” says Lavasoft CEO Ann-Christine Åkerlund. “It relates to information exchanged within our computing environment and the entire community of computer users worldwide.” Project ECO addresses the immediate concerns of an international community involved in daily activities and transactions within the information superhighway. According to Åkerlund, people within this community are bound by a common desire to use computer system environments in the best and safest way possible.“Computers are becoming an influential element in our society to a wide extent. Throughout project ECO, Lavasoft aims to evolve our environment towards safer computing by continuously developing new, powerful and easily understandable reporting and analysis tools,” Michael A. Wood, VP Research, adds. By staying at the forefront of research and development, Lavasoft maintains its pioneering role as worldwide leader in anti-spyware solutions, Wood says.New reporting and analysis toolsProject ECO is now developing a series of new tools to allow users to explore their system environments in greater detail. The applications will expand the users’ control over their computers by providing the means to remove content, which could not have been removed before.Lavasoft’s dedicated R&D team strives to deliver new and exciting tools that users can download for free from our website. The coming tools from Project ECO can be downloaded from www.lavasoft.de/eco.shtml and will also be available at announced mirror sites. Further information on the Project ECO can be found at http://www.lavasoftnews.com.

For more information, please contact:Merja TurpeinenPublic Relations ManagerLavasoft ABPorkkalankatu 20 A00180 HelsinkiFinlandTelephone: +358 9 6932220Fax: +358 9 6932227Email: merja@lavasoft.depress@lavasoft.dewww.lavasoft.comAbout LavasoftLavasoft, headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, is the pioneer and worldwide leader in anti-spyware solutions, providing software and services designed to help secure computer systems at every level from individuals to large corporation. For further information please visit: www.lavasoft.com.